No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1144: Cam Young, Rory McIlroy tied going into Sunday at Augusta National

Episode Date: April 12, 2026

What a day for Cameron Young (-11)! He shoots a third round 65 to rocket up the leaderboard and tie Rory McIlroy (-11) at the top. Sam Burns (-10) sits in solo third, Shane Lowry (-9) in fourth, and Jason Day (-8) and Justin Rose (-8) rounding out the Top 5. We break it all down and get you set up for an epic Masters Sunday: Stories of the Day, Down the Leaderboard, HFBITFB, on-site observations with Soly & Neil, and a whole bunch more! Presented by Titleist. Titleist - #1 Ball in Golf High Noon - Sun's Up! Rhoback - code NLU for 20% off at https://www.rhoback.com Looking to travel this year, check out East Sands Golf Co.: https://www.eastsandsgolf.co/nlu Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf The NLU email newsletter: bi-monthly updates on all things NLU: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/subscribe Join The No Laying Up Nest: https://nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome back to the no laying up live show the no laying up podcast how about that uh sallie you tried to say it was over last night i tried to tell you just wait there's something about this golf course man you just never know uh what a day. Holy smokes.

Sally, how are you? I am buzzing. I don't recall ever walking off a golf course at a tournament round that I've attended and been buzzing harder than this. I did not get to see Rory last year on Saturday and Sunday. I went home for that. Really good decision. Of the nine-ish tournament rounds,

I think I've seen at Augusta, this was by far the best. Just incredible energy everywhere he looked. Just awesome stuff happening in the final three groups and so much fun, just a little, you know, corners, and concave. I will get into it.

I'm so excited. Just take the mic back. You got to keep me in control tonight. TC riding a wave of emotions today. I mean, Fleetwood, Rose, Reed, Rory, just all kinds of stuff for you to react to you today. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like I've gone through seven stages of grief about four different times this week. But I was proud of Tommy for not indulging in the lawlessness and the looting today. out there. He respects the green jackets too much. We are, we're going to talk about a lot of things. Of course, of course, if you're just joining us. Cam Young and Rory McElroy are tied atop the leaderboard headed into the final round of the masters. We're of course brought to you by Titleist. I should have mentioned that off the jump that are the, our friends of title said, don't even do an ad read. Just get right into it. They said, just talk about how much ass Cam Young kick today. So that's what we're going to do. Those are my words, not their words. Uh, but yeah, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's a word. But yeah, that.

That's what we're going to do. So shout out to Titleist. Thank you. Thank you to them. I mean, I think we, God, I don't even know. Do we start with Rory? Do we start with Cam Young? I think we got to probably start with Rory.

Entering the day on a, with a six-shot lead. There's a lot of stats. I was digging up about people who are leading major championships with leads that big after 36 holes. I'll just lay this one out there for you guys. Every player in a major since 1983, who has led by five or more shots at the halfway point has gone on to win. It happened nine times,

notables on that list. Tiger at Pebble, he of course went on to win by 15. Rory did it once at Congressional. Martin Kimer did it at Pinehurst. Brooks had a seven-shot lead in 2019 when he very, a little bit of whiffs of what we saw today, nearly kicked it away. He won by two. But yeah,

we're in rare air here if Roy does not pull this off. it was quite a roller coaster ride I know you probably saw little bits and pieces of it were you flying around what were you doing today yeah it was I mean it's set up really great for for awesome watching in person with the final three groups being what they were

Lowry Fleetwood and then Pee and Team Rose and Burns and Rory so it was you know kind of how the mapping of the course goes like you can watch some everybody off on one and by the time you get down to two green you cut the corner there you can watch all three of those groups come through watch them come through three

So I saw a lot, you know, you can't see everything at Augusta, but saw so much of that part of the course. And it's like, bang, read, fresh out of the gate, birdie on one, birdie on two, birdie on three, here he comes. Rory Bogies on one, blew it way right off the tee. And then he steps up and drives number three. It was just like that day you, I feel like you, I've heard my grandpa talk about and going to the masters of like,

there's just stuff going on everywhere at all times. Hopefully the broadcast was good in capturing all that because it really just felt like all the fans were talking to each other. Excuse me. Oh, my God, patrons. That's on me. All the patrons were like, there was just this wave of communication going on. Like, Rory's wet on 11. He's wet on 11. And I'll ever just relaying messages around the golf course. And yeah, that was like the match, the magic of the masters I thought was captured on this Saturday.

I would say the broadcast was good. I think it's at points there was too much going on and they couldn't keep up with it. which I feel like that's a first world problem to have. They did show Lowry's ace like 19 times in a row. And like all this other shit is going on at the same time and they just kept going back to it. I was leaving three green as the Roy group had come through there. That's everyone does cuts to six on my way there.

Like walking, I'm on 70 and the ace fell in it. And I was probably 30 seconds too late to be in there for that one. That one hurt. It looked pretty much what you thought. Yeah. That's the whole one one. He hit it, and then it went in. T.C., what jumped off the page for you with Rory today?

I mean, I felt like, God, I felt like you can't keep getting away with this. Like when he got up and down on six. Oh, my God. That was insane. Just to run through it a little bit. So you said, I mean, he pushed it right on one, but still very playable. He had like 89 yards, I think, and hits it over the green from there. Very, very nervy, a little putt from the fringe, which was my first,

of like, oh shit, I shouldn't have said all that stuff on the live show last night about it being over. Just a, Nancy called it a shocking bogey, which I think was apropos. Made par on two, fine. But that was, you know, the lead was down to three by that time from six, you know, when he, when he woke up this morning. It was quickly down to three. By the time he walked off of number two, the drive on number three was insane. All of the stuff that we're going to talk about, like, oh, my God, he was so wobbly. He couldn't figure out the driver.

What was going on with the irons? The drive on three was bananas. I mean, there were a couple guys that pushed it up there today, but to do it in that spot with, you know, reeling a little bit. I don't know. It did seem like Trevor kind of said this on the broadcast too, but like every time the chips were down, he did lock in and nut up and hit one.

You know, it was almost like the opposite when it was like, okay, man, you got a little bit of breathing space. It was like, oh, God, there's the right ball again. You know, and it was like that shot on three, the one on five, the one on 18, we're all just like, okay, that's, that's the guy that, you know, who the fuck is this other guy that keeps popping up?

I've been off the everything app today, but I'm hoping somebody did the Shane Gillis, like, you know, the meme of like, Roy McRoy, as soon as he has a three shot lead or more at Augusta, just like turns into Shane Gillis, tried to play that golf course. Because it is like, as soon as he gets like down again, you're like, oh, he's going to burn you the next three, like for sure.

But when he's up, it just seems, it seems shaky, man. It really did. He was, I, I didn't get to see. see all the front nine, but from what I did see, it was fortunate to get it in with what he got it in at. I think the, like the one that really impressed me, and he had a great putt there yesterday, but another good one today was the up and down on four. 100%. I think if that putt doesn't go in on four, it starts spiraling earlier because you're

calling to five, you know, in a world of hurt. And I think he kind of delayed the inevitable until 10, which is almost what kept being in the back of my head was like he got that one up and down on four because that was the first i mean saw he had the left miss in play with the irons like all day almost all of the long irons mid irons he hit even the way i mean the wedges he hit were just yanked left all day uh and that was the first one that i was like okay we've we've steadied the ship tc like we're we're good man like save par there and we're moving on and uh yeah he had kind of pull off at that point yeah that that moment just never fully came or that switch never really flipped when we would we were okay to

chill a little bit. I don't know if this showed up. I meant to go back and watch this, but he drove it right on seven as I was like hustling up there and I ended up like right next to him as he's hitting that shot. And like he's in the right rough and he's got like a tree limb on the tree right in front of him and he pulls like a wedge out. And I was like, dude, what are you going? I cannot tell what you're trying to do with this. And like it looked like the wedge was just going to go directly into this limb. There's a little bit of pines kind of coming off the top of that limb. And sure enough, like he hits it and it cleared the very strong limb by like, this much and still nipped pine needles. Like he was playing so aggressively. We've seen him play very aggressively with the second shot on seven from the trees.

But it was like that ball could have came ricocheting right back at him. And he ended up saving par on that hole as well from the green side bunker, which was very impressive up and down. Which is what I have in my notes when we get to that point. It's just like how the hell is he even par right now with how bad he's hitting it. And it was a classic like Augusta afternoon too where not like you could see him isolated, in this, you know, just torture chamber that he's in where he's like, oh my God, this thing's going to slip away. Everybody else was just making everything. I mean, this is like right

in the midst of Scotty's run, how Tong Lee's making eagles and holding out, almost holding out on, and Sam Burns was playing a really good golf. I mean, it was kind of haymakers, like all over the place around him. And meanwhile, like the app is struggling. There's like a worldwide to outage today on the app. So it's not updating any of like the highlights. So you're just, you're, you're even more relying upon what's going on with

the broadcast and everything. It came back online and everything was good. And you can watch everything, you know, midway through the back nine. But, but it was like, man,

I felt like it was going back in time a little bit. 10, 12 years. Yeah. And he gets to eight. There's, you know, the great stat. They keep shouting it out of the broadcast,

but has not hit a fairway on a par five yet this week. to that point that street continues at 8 lays up to like a great ideal spot it's kind of a clumsy chip can't really convert it misses out on a birdie there nukes to drive on 9 you think maybe that's going to be kind of like a

all right we've we've settled down again no not really the case but ends up making par has plays 10 great you know makes birdie there to get back to 2 ahead and then that brings us to 11 were you standing there for no for that did not go to amen corner

that's when the murmurs started going around the golf course that's when i darted over for for cam he birdie on 10 though dege i was like okay cool like i know it's like the fifth time that i had done that on the other regularly scheduled program and i felt like all of his misses were were either left or right they weren't really long or short yeah you're kind of thinking all right like he's he's not hitting it that poorly there's just something going on with his swing his contact is okay um and then yeah and then 11 just, I mean, similar to Ludwig a couple of years ago. Like it just came out of nowhere, right?

Another one, like I said, all day, the miss with the driver was right. The miss with the irons was left. And so he blows one way right on 11. Gets lucky, hits a tree, uh, bounces back in the fairway. He had, I think 222. Shout out to the, I was kind of following the data golf live blog. As, as the day was going, shout to those guys because they had a great post right then. I was like, I actually think this is a horrible break for.

Rory, I know this is silly, but I think this is a horrible break that this ball just came back in the fairway. Because now he's got a long iron, there's trouble left, and he can't stop hitting it left, and he's going to keep being aggressive and probably hit it in the water. And that's exactly what happened. That was one of the more like preordained water balls. I could feel that in my bones as he stepped into that shot. As a speed fan, I could feel that. Is this going to bounce in the water or is this going to just fly in the water?

That's happening. And then how long. while topping one into the water. That was the gotten right on 13. Did you see that, I saw the replay of that. But can I also shout out

the yellow hazard on 11, like making Rory drop where he had to, I mean, you know, it's one thing to just roll right in the water. And it's like, ah, okay,

you just drop right near the green and chip right up and take your boge. No, you got to go drop in the drop zone and ends up making double with it is like just another example of the freaking shot value out there, man.

It's just, you got to be. precise you can't miss and if you missed you're gonna pay weirdly though i think if he makes that put like that almost feels like a confidence boost or a like you know as good as a birdie or an eagle like a whole shit i just hit in the water 11 and i only made bogey yeah um but just not a good putt there so that brings us to to 12 where we're probably can you know finalize our play by play here but uh another left miss another tough spot he hits it up on that down slope just short of where the pine straw is.

So he's in the short grass on the down slope. It looks like he's a little indecisive on what to do. Ends up hitting a wedge. Just kind of a little clunky, short, two putts for his bogey. And Cam Young is your leader at that point. So he's going on an absolute tear on the other side of the golf course, hitting some trees and bouncing back in the fairway a couple of times on his own. But yeah, man, just a pretty surreal.

Like I was thinking about it last night, kind of during and after the And I'm like, man, you know, we're joking about the block party stuff and why, why does this feel a little different? And I was just kind of thinking like whenever something, you know, you have, you have Roger Bannister go and run the four minute mile. Like if he does it again, two weeks later, it's like, okay. All right. Well, yeah. I mean, yeah, pretty cool. But now it's just like, yeah, what if we kind of like Nick is Achilles a little bit? You think he could do it again now? Like, let's, you know, let's see. That's kind of a little bit how I'm, uh, I'm feeling today where. a absolute runaway would have been cool in that it would have been like, man, this is the guy we've wanted to see for 15 years now, just like, where's that guy, you know, who did it a

couple times in 2011 and 2014 and who can just put the pedal down and go and blow everybody away? It's like, ah, it's going to be one of those weeks. Hell yeah, he's back. And that was, that was exciting, but not nearly as exciting as like, okay, well, let's see if you can hang on, like, again. because this is the Rory, I think everybody knows and loves. I feel like I went through this revelation last night of like, the Masters Instagram had this highlight clip of just all of his shots yesterday.

And like that cool filter and it's like really, really ambient, great background noise. I must have watched like six times because I'm just, it was, it was awesome, man. It was mesmerizing just like the way that they cut it, the whole treatment on it was awesome and like the pot that he made on four and just seeing seeing the way he uses the earth and all that stuff. I'm like, man, this guy is such a dude. And, you know, like, I can forgive him for being a for being a bad loser sometimes because that's what fuels days like today. And I'm like, I'm really like getting row around. I'm like, this is everything that we've always wanted him to be. He's growing into a pitcher. He's got, he's got a full arsenal of pitches now. He's not just throwing heat all the

time and then today happened and I'm like oh you just hit the first like three batters of the game you're just like oh run exactly didn't even record it out I how I felt the halfway point what I was trying to harp on last night was like how much golfer is left to play in this and like I weirdly feel somewhat better about his chances tomorrow right right now tied than if he had a three shot lead kind of like T C's like oh this hole's actually harder from the upt's it's not but I know literally his win probability There are a lot of holes like that at TBC Sawgrass. There, there, it's obviously he would prefer to have a three-shot lead, but it,

I don't think this like disqualifies him from winning tomorrow. I don't think it's over, I don't think it's anything over, but over from Rory. I still think he's the favorite to win. I would still be, I'd be surprised if he did not win. If you gave me Rory versus the field right now, I would, I would take Rory. Like he got this round out of the way. I hopefully just got, he, it's so easy to say and what I felt like we were trying to get to the point last night of like,

no, you don't understand he's freed up now. He's freed up now. I wasn't really buying that, but I do think he can get there. Like if that doesn't do the pukin rally, like today doesn't do the whole sobering up of like, dude, you can't play defensive. You gripped it too tight today. You did all the things you weren't supposed to do now that you've already won this tournament. Go out and be the dude that hit the shot into 15 again today. And I don't know. I have a, I have a feeling that it was he's still the best player on this board right now. Cam Young's making a very, very good, good taste. As I said that, I'm like, I'm not positive on that, but like, he's not playing like

the best guy. He's not playing like the best, but do you think he plays well tomorrow, or do you think he just keeps the same grit and grind like Memphis Grizzlies? We are just going to play defense and in slapping the floor. I don't think he's going to move to Nashville tomorrow. That's what you're saying. Well, Broad's going to be disappointed to hear that. I think he plays better tomorrow.

I do. I think he's got to be able to say, like, look, I am tied to leave going to the final round of the matchers. Truly don't think he could play worse. Like, that's as bad as he can play today. Also, today should have been so much worse, like, from where he hit it in certain spots. Like, I mean, I'll go back to six. Like, that's, it's fucking, get past that. A big left missed, big left miss, hit the left.

He just rolled along, almost goes down to the bamboo down there. You know, you don't hear a lot of smart commentary in the crowd. One person in the next one person was like, man, nobody hits it over there. What's that? Doddy was shouting out that, yeah, the bamboo forest that's down there, which is, which is great. Rory, you know, I like what Rory tells you what's on his bide. That one, as soon as he made contact, you could tell, like, I mean, he was terrified of where that that ball was going to end up. Maybe he got a little lucky on where that ended up.

And then, yeah, like you said, just walks away on Skate, walks away from a shot. I know. To recover, but he's wildly popular. Everybody got out of the way of that ball really quickly. He could have used some patron help on that one. Like everybody was moving, like getting out of the way on that way. Well, let's keep moving because I know Neil's going to come in and he's probably going to have more Rory stuff. So I'm sure we'll circle back.

But we're going to keep shouting out our friends at Data Golf here. Who do you think has the higher win probability right now? They're both tied at 11 under. Cam Young, 32 percent to Rory's 30 percent. uh what a what who's the next closest half to that sam burns uh 14 and then Shane Lowry five and a half Justin Rose 4.6 Jason day 3.3 oh sorry if some of these are not in order scotty sheffler 5.4 um yeah so the there were there are a lot of blog entries about that too with like scottie's incredible 65 and he was two shots better than the whole like second place with

his irons today. I mean, it was an unbelievable round of golf from Scotty and still only, you can only move up so much in a day like that. But, uh, Cam, birdies number three and then chips in for birdie on number four, which was awesome. Uh, adds three more birdies, seven, eight and ten. Again, worth reiterating at every possible turn. He was four under or four over through seven, uh, at this golf tournament, which is bananas. Uh, hits a chair. So you might not have seen some of this. Uh, hits a chair on nine. and ends up kicking back on the green. He was way long on nine.

It hits like the base of a chair, kicks back on the green. Granted, it kicked like way back on the green. Probably would have made par either way. But that was funny because on 13, hits a pretty big hook off the tee, hits a tree, bounces back into the fairway, leaves himself a very tidy, nice shot to the green, which he puts right in the middle and two butts for Bertie.

To become the first guy to double digits under par at that point, he was within two shots. It hits a big-ass drive on 14 and absolutely stuffs it to get within one. I love when guys just stiff it on that green with all the slopes that are going on there. It's just, it's really fun when you see somebody who really knows what they're doing, landing it in the perfect spot 30 feet away from the hole and ending up, you know, having a five-footer. It's just really good. That was the spot too where like I think a lot of guys, you saw how good these guys are today on that shot.

like so many guys playing the perfect shot for that um and then rory not you know missing his spot not playing the perfect shot and and making a bomb down that hill which again was another one of those like what did he have sand wedge blob wedge or uh gap wedge something like that in his hand and again just a big 20 yards yeah big massive pull to the left but uh on the camp front he kind of had a chance to go even even deeper i mean he hit a you know just smothered it a little bit on 15 was blocked out had to lay up sallie i think that's when you picked him up is that right exactly when i did he was in a spot where um he it was like one of the steepest parts of the hill and his you get up to the top

of the grandstands on left of 15 is like the most incredible spot to watch golf from because guys can be 220 240 yards away and as soon as the ball takes off you have like a great view of like oh that's long oh that's short and like as soon as that ball was in the air you're like oh, got to carry. And then I'm starting to scan the area because there's, there's some patches of overseeds still left there, but that whole bank is now essentially Bermuda. And you're like kind of rooting for it to be like, all right. Hit that patch. Hit that patch. Just trickles all the back in the water. He went over to the drop area. I don't know if they showed all this. I had to call rules official back in. And it went back to hit right where he came from. I think you went for one

more club this time. And again, another one. As soon as it's in the air, you're like, all that is all over it. Almost hold it. the boge then flipped over and stuffed it on the, or hit on the top shelf there on 16, and made the birdie. And now I, I, I think the, the Ryder Cup moment that he had on 18 had to have done him a ton of favors.

Like, he doesn't give you a lot of emotion. He doesn't give you a lot of, you know, not a lot of people know much about this guy, but like the walk he took from 15 to 16, I literally wrote down like, man, people love Cam Young.

That was, it was the same thing at the players. Like, I was blown away at the outpouring. That is like, he's got the juice. man. I don't know what it is. I think it's an exciting playing style, aggressive playing style. Absolute heaters he goes on and makes a ton of birdies and plays with zero fear. But I was just, you know, I'm sure the American factor has something to do with it.

Like you're rooting probably for the American, you know, on American soil. Most fans would tend to do that. But it was a, it was a bit of a moment there when he rolled that in on 16. And I was glad I hit the right combo on that one and was there for that one. I was a little bit surprised he didn't try to get more out of that that layup on 15. Like how Rose, I mean, Rose was way down the left on 15. To go up and over the trees. And, and went, you know, but like I was, I was kind of surprised he didn't try to hook one a little bit farther to the left. Because it seemed like a tougher angle from way over on the right there than like, I mean, Rose had an awesome, awesome look at it from where his wedge was. But, you know, all that considered, like, Cam hit a, hit a, hit a,

absolutely like nails wed like I'm so impressed with his short irons for someone who bombs the ball like the amount of speed you have to dump with your with your wedges and he's and he's just hitting like the most precise shots in the biggest moments it's it's is real really good golf it is not like modern bullshit bomb it figure it out and like just be okay with the rest of part of your game it's like it is there's artistry in that right if we're talking about artistry you need to win at a place like this. He was not my pick to win, but he was between him, Rahm and Schephler

for my three picks, way on a limb, one, two, or one, whatever, three in the world. But like, I'm such a buyer and believer in Cam Young's actual game. I mean, I just think he's a totally different golfer since the wind of him last year, ever since he put the new golf ball on play. I'd be like his career started right then and there. Anything that happened before that, I kind of don't care about,

even though there's some really good time periods. I think he's been an absolute different golfer. since that moment. I need to get that putter he has. He looks good coming off that. He stails with it too. And I think that I love seeing a guy that hits a draw as well or like sitting a draw.

Like that's always invigorating to me. It's never, it's not an out of control draw either. It is not like a whipping hook. It's not like a P draw that, like watching P at this golf course hit that shot is awesome. C, C, C, because he,

He uses it so well. Like the shot he hit under the back quadrant on six today, how he got back to that back part of nine. Like he uses that drawspin really well to access some spots that are difficult. And that doesn't get rewarded a lot of other places. Like it speaks to just watching a true, watching him in Rose navigate this golf course. It was a treat today, honestly.

I think the other thing, Cam, going back to like your kind of the persona, I think there's something interesting that resonates there where he's a very, unmodern golfer, right? Like, doesn't do social media. He's such a, he's such a slow simmer out there. And I think that, I think people are drawn to that. Like, they want more out of it.

And they're not, you know, like, it's not, they're not getting anything from them, but you're, you're intrigued by it. You're drawn by, like, it's, it's magnetic a little bit. There's something, I feel like we've joked about this on Slack, uh, quite a bit over the last year or two, but it's, It's like, he just reminds me so much of a baseball player where, and there's so many baseball players that I'm just like, I watch you for three hours every night. And man, I don't know. Bryce Terang, I don't know what you think about anything in the entire game the right way.

And every day and I'm just like, what a fucking ball player, man. God, that guy's such a ball player. And I don't mean for that to be like a shut up a dribble thing at all. I just think it's like a very, it's just a very funny phenomenon. And honestly, I mean, to no fault of anybody, it's just a very different. It's a big juxtaposition with Rory, right? Who has to do media every week, who we've heard from every week. Granted, I believe he declined media today.

I'll slip that in there. No, Lori was on Golf Channel. Was he? Oh, I saw it in our notes. Bad, bad info by me. But we hear from Rory a lot, is what I'm saying. That is like he's been a superstar for 20 years almost at this point. And that's what they like about Rory too.

Of course, of course. But with Cam, it is, as you were saying that, I'm just like, man, why are people so, myself included? Like, why are people so drawn to him? And it's, it's just a, I think you're right. There's a lot of, uh, it's, I do kind of want to know what's around the corner, but I also am fine not knowing because I'm like, it's a little bit of a Dustin Johnson thing maybe where I'm like, man, fucking fun to watch that guy.

Yeah, but then, but DJ, I would say that I think there's, I think the other thing that's happening with Cam is like over the last six, eight, 12 months. Like, I think, like he does give you stuff in interviews. He gives you good notes. He's thoughtful, like he gives you good answers. And it's, I think there's, there's substance there, too, that's me, you know, that's kind of, oh, shit. Like, I don't know a whole lot about this guy, but I want to know more because I like him. Sounds like I got nuclear.

Nuclear golf had a Rory declines media. That's, that's on me. I got it. You got nuclear. I got nuclear. I got nuclear. On the Rory, quickly on this, did you guys watch his presser last night? I read the transcript.

Did that not feel like a winning a winner's press conference last night? He talked for like an, it felt like an hour on the golf channel. It was so long. It was actually in the press building. He was extremely relaxed and was, and I was just like, is it over, over?

Like it kind of feels like everybody thinks this is over. I mean, well, as somebody who literally said it's over last night. And again, I don't necessarily even regret that because I was just, I was obviously just wrong. Like I knew all of this stuff can happen.

It's not like I forgot like, oh yeah, I guess you can make a bunch of birdies. Oh, yeah, I guess you can make bogeys. I just didn't think he was going to do that because the guy that we had watched the first two days was like so comfortable hitting it all over the map still making great scores. I'm like, well, he's fucking Rory, man. He's not going to hit it all over the map again tomorrow. He'll figure it out. But like reading a lot of those quotes, saw like that's what hit me too was, you know, the guys battled for 16, 17, 18 years, whatever to win this. this golf tournament.

I think there probably was a little bit of just like, man, this is way more fun. Right. This is way more fun to having a six shot lead and everybody just talking about how great this is. Yeah. Truly,

those old photos are like, you're back. You got one more. I got time for two more. He was also feeling himself. He's like, he's like, oh yeah,

I didn't play the three weeks before. This tournament sucks. Why would I tee it up there? Which again, out of the day. That's sick. Even that was just like, man,

that's, he's walking the walk. He said, you know, he telegraphed that one. Like I don't really care about playing normal PJ tour events anymore. I only want to win the majors. And he basically said in the press for yesterday.

No, all I care about is winning the majors. I've been up here so many times just trying to win this tournament. That's all that matters. The reaction to that was so weird. People were like kind of mad. This is why I don't like Rory. Oh, cool. You fly up in your PJ and all that.

I was like, wait a second here. Yeah. This is a dude that could be doing anything with this time is dedicating it to like learning every nook and cranny of this golf course as possible. A place that like once kind of gave him the creeps and he like would visibly tense up when asked about Augusta and would talk about it. It is now like, you know, possibly dreaming of a world where he wins four or five of these and he's like he's earned the right to, you know, spend the money on his private plane to fly it

up there through incredible golf in his career. And he's applying that. I'm like, dude, go do your thing, man. That's what exactly. I would love to get that if I was that. I got to say if I had unlimited money, like taking my kid to school, drop him off, flying to Augusta, playing it all day. and coming home for dinner.

I'm like, I think that's it, man. I think that's the only thing anybody would ever do, right? Like, I don't know. It sounds pretty great to me. I don't know. Yeah, sometimes he deserves some plaque for some things,

but some of the people, people are going way out of their way to find some things to be correct. That's the thing I was saying earlier, like when he's bouncing around and when he's really, like, I was just blown away at,

like his entire game is predicated upon confidence, right? So then when he relays that confidence and oppressor, people can't be pissed at him. That's his whole thing. You want to hear another good stat that kind of blew my mind a little bit? I think this was from the tournament notes from the Elias Sports Bureau. Yesterday's 65 gave Rory, gave him the tie for the most 65s or better in a major of all time. With him, Ror, him, Tiger, and Dustin Johnson have each done it. All majors?

All majors. Okay. Wow. All majors. He's done it 10 times. He shot 65 or better in a major 10 times, which is tied for the all-time record with Dustin Johnson and Tiger. More than Jack ever did it. More than Tom Watson ever did it in a much smaller sample size, I would say. So just impressive.

One negative from Rory today that I didn't like to see was he, I didn't see a ton of instances of it, but multiple times on 15 green, like very obviously looking up at the scoreboard. like before and after getting to the green just like studying it looking at it I was like yeah but I feel like if you know that that that much shit going on were you and but Sunday yes Saturday I'm like dude you just got to kind of play you think you're other sport board watcher you're not I don't know we're solid so you were with cam on 16 when he made that birdie that was when he took the lead I don't know if it felt like that or not that was right as Rory was scuffling on 12 543 p.m.

I think I wrote that down. It was like Cam Young as the solo lead of the Masters. And like that's where we, I was near a photographer that had an earpiece that was updating everybody. They've already went in the water and 11. And legitimately like he said it loud enough that it was working its way down the grandstands into the non-press members. Like he's in the water 11.

Where's the water 11? Scoops out there today. Scoops only. He was a very busy day. I think he only made a pretty weak ass one one phone call. Dispatcher was pretty odd impressed with it with the, with the, with the output today. We might,

we might bring calls from scoops. We might bin the scoops bit for today. We'll come back hot and heavy tomorrow. Any steal or no? I think similar. I think he was, he was twisted and nods trying to get that candy bar. Today was the hardest I've ever worked to watch golf.

I was like, dude, I'm not going to go run for a phone bag right now. This is just, I'd be forced to it. I don't have it. Guys, Sam Burns played really freaking good golf. I think boge-free,

68. I think a lot of people, including Big Randy, had maybe not considered him to be a legitimate threat. Came right out of the gates. Burdied one and two. Like I said, played bogey-free golf. Great birdied 11 as Rory was hooking it in the water.

And then birdied on 13. I mean, just nuking the ball off the tee, playing extremely sensible golf with the irons putting well. No surprise there. TC, I mean, just impressive stuff from Burns. I was, I give Sam Burns a ton of credit.

I think the only shot that I was a little bit, not stunned by was maybe the second shot into 13. But then he, you know, he hit a okay chip and then made a pot there. He plays fast. He's hitting the shit out of it off the tee. He just seems like, like there was a really good quote from Trevor coming down the stretch too. I think, you know, Burns just seemed like he just wanted to. to be out there enjoying it.

And like he wasn't scared of the moment. He wasn't, he was, he was ready for it. And he was present too, I think. And, yeah, like, like, we've never really gives, you know, never really given Sam Burns his flowers. And I'll give him his flowers today. I think he hasn't earned it in fairness. Two top tens and 22 career. Oh, totally.

But even when he wins, I feel like it doesn't get us excited. It doesn't make us feel anything. But I don't know. I just, I like what the guy's putting on tape, right? He's like, Birdy on 11 today, as Rory's doing all of that stuff is, is awesome. You know, and then, and then, yeah, just played smart golf, did what he had to do and kept himself in this thing. He's one of those guys. I was just like, with, like, there's a lot going on with Rory.

And I, as much as people were into Cam Young, no one was into Sam Burns. I mean, just multiple holes that I was following this. When Rory's done, people are moving on and ready to go and up and moving. And he did not let any of that phase him at any moment. I mean, Roy finishes out on 15, and it's like, boom, like seats clapping, you know, everybody's getting up and going. And it just, he was completely unfazed by all that. So even more credits him on that.

Maybe this is like lazy, uh, lazy connection or lazy take or whatever. But I don't think he'd be best friends with Scotty without having like somewhat of a similar disposition. You know, he seems pretty unbothered by a lot of stuff. He's played really well at US Open's last two years. I think that speaks to being pretty. unbothered. He just... bothered by everything except for casual water.

A decent casual water ruling. Thank you. A decent ruling and he might have won the U.S. Open last year. Yeah, and he's just, he's one of the... I saw him at Pebble. I remember this like distinctly hitting a shot on, I forget where it was, maybe 10. And just watching the way he flights the ball and the way he, like,

he plays real golf. And seeing that in person was a good reminder of just like, oh my God. God, I haven't watched this guy enough. And he just seems like, I don't know if he's going to win tomorrow. I don't know if he's going to win a major. I don't know if whatever. But he has one. And he has that trajectory of a player that, you know,

it takes quite a few, like, knocks on the door before it actually happens. You know, you think about someone like, I don't know, Xander. You guys are giving him grace, but you're not giving him grace or other guys. Well, yeah, I don't know if Sam Burns is quite bottled it. But part of that is, you know, not really being in a serious. been in the position. Yeah. Don't shoehorn Ludwig into this.

We're trying to give Stan Burns. I'm just, I just got to call it out in the moment when it's, when you guys want to talk about us. I don't think they're the same level of player. I think that's, that's the kind of, that's the comment on Ludwig is like,

dude, you're kind of supposed to be this guy. Lundvig's paired with Brian Campbell tomorrow. Oh my God. And if he doesn't win that heads up, I might cancel Ludwig. Oh, yeah.

I was going to say, I feel like you need it. You might need to put some skid in the game on that one. We'll do that conversation Monday night, T.C. Exactly. I mean, I think we got to probably talk about Scotty 65 as well. That seemed to get the people going. Pretty epic front nine from Scotty.

Eagles 2, Bertie 7 and 8, lips out that approach shot on 9. Like, he very well almost hold that from the fairway. End up making Bernie there shoots 31. On the front 9, his best ever nine holes at Augusta National. I think anytime you're talking about the two-time champion, you say that's the best nine holes he's ever played. That's notable. Stuffs it at 11 at that time.

I know there were a couple birdies after this, but there were more bogeys than PARs when he came through on 11, and he ended up making birdie there. Wild that he still hasn't buried 13 or 15 this week. That's crazy. You got something on that, so? Yeah, he's low-key struggles on that holes. Yeah, like,

Two and eight, the par five's in the front. Historically, he absolutely cleans up on those holes. And for whatever reason, he does not play the back nine nearly as well. And especially 13 and 15. He is, uh, just the two shots that are just like, all right, who's the best iron player of the world?

And he just, it's crazy that he, uh, he doesn't seem to show up on those. But birdie 16 hits a, another awesome shot into 17. That was kind of like that 14 whole location a little bit where, where guys are feeding really cool shots in there.

but can't convert. And it has to punch out on 18 and just hits an awesome little tidy wedge from, I don't know what that was, 100 yards or something, but hits it up there to three feet and kicks it in, shoot 65, career low, 18 holes, career low 19 and career low 18.

For Scotty, like I said earlier, there's two shots better than anyone else with the irons today. Two shots better than second place, I should say. He was like 11 shots better than Keegan, who was the worst in the field, beating somebody by 11 with your irons is that's a heady heady stuff and shoot and swatted the first question of his presser i believe it was uh jason sobel who will always you know take these things in stride and usually with good humor but he asked him what what could or should that round

have been because it was just you know the the textbook definition of ball striking and he didn't quite get everything out of it some would say uh and scotty just hit him with like that's that's a terrible question awful that next question next topic, which was great. He ended up coming back to it a little bit later in the presser. But it's good stuff. I love everything about what I just said there about Scotty. Swat in the press conference question included.

The Keegan shot 73. It's not like Keegan shot like 80 today. Right. You play 11. Yeah. It's crazy. What do you guys think Scotty is in this golf tournament right now? Yeah, he's four back.

I think he is. All right. I mean, today was all you needed to see. Yeah. Everything I said about today, everything I said yesterday, Sully, was predicated on Rory shooting 68 today. Like I thought I've for sure 69 was like his floor today, the way that he was swagging around.

And obviously I was, I was wrong. I'm dumb. You're smart. You know, you're not. You're handsome. I'm not attractive. You know. Keep going if you want.

I don't remember the rest of the lines. So I'm going for, I think it, it. So anyway, sorry, he's four back. Yes, I think he's in the golf tournament. It, it has taken me a lot of masters to, like, fully embrace and understand and accept the uncertainty that this golf course provides of like when you need a birdie, somebody's holes have to just be, look incredibly enticing. Like, oh, I'm absolutely going to burdy it. And when you only need a par, it probably just looks like the hardest hole in the world. And you just never know what's going to have.

You start out hot. that does not mean you're going to stay hot. You start out horrible. That does not mean you're going to stay horrible. Play great round two does not mean you're going to play great round three. There's the maximum amount of uncertainty on this golf course. And like I said last night, if you had a six shot lead at Aronimic at the halfway point, I'd have been like over.

Like we don't, this is, he's not, you know, there's not enough uncertainty in what's remaining here with the remaining 36. And it's, it's awesome. Like I've just, I'm so giddy for tomorrow. We are queued up for, potentially one of the best masters we've seen in the last 10 years. And Scotty should have, I mean, he didn't Bertie 3 today? Like, he had a good look there.

I just, I think there's, there's, there's, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit for Scotty to continue to claw his way back in this thing. Well, you had, yeah, I guess I'm of two minds because on one, on one hand, I'm like, man, it seems like he just needs to catch the scent, right? And just like, get back, you would, just get out of the, the quote, unquote, slump, which is, you know, him finishing like 18th or whatever he's been doing. But I guess he kind of had that at Pebble. You know, he had that final round, was that 62 out of Pebble that day. And I thought maybe that was going to be a little bit of a snap out of a get right sort of situation. And the scuffling's kind of

continued. But maybe today was was the day that'll kind of break this, this horrible, horrible, horrible curse that he finds himself stuck in. It's got a lot of work to do. It's going to probably need to be another 65. He's going to need a good day. So he's going to need an eagle. Like he needs an eagle. I'm sorry, guys. Oh, I didn't see that. I didn't see that developing. That thing was, I think that play was developing for like the last 12 seconds. God, I just threw, I threw a C to there. T.C. just outed at the wrong time. He's going to need a good day. If you want to make it a good day, maybe grab the all new high noon day. The new variety A pack.

It's going to be available year round. Don't beat yourself up, please, see. Come on. You bounce back. It's a custom, man. You can bounce back. That's right. That's right.

It's going to be available all year round to keep the sun shining. the good times rolling, crafted with real vodka and real juice, the high noon day pack. forward to that. Visit high noon spirits.com to find a pack near you. High noon suns up. Sorry, TC. What are you going to say? No, I was just going to say, I think he needs probably an eagle early to really like make

it happen on two or some fireworks on three and then steal one, you know, one of four, five, six. Yeah. And I think that that kind of gets him back to two or three because even today, like you saw it with, with Rose, you saw it to a lesser extent with Reed. even start with Wyndham at times. I was like, you know what? Like if you can just plant the seat of doubt and get,

let's say your three, four, five holes ahead of these guys, and you make an eagle on eight or you, or you steal one on five or something like that, like you get these guys thinking because I think, like, I mean, like all day I thought Rose was just going to get left in the dust. And he's three shots back.

He played such a badass round of golf today. Three days. That was just, talk about a pitcher. that just did not have his stuff today rose rose didn't have it couldn't buy one and he somehow finished with bogey free 69 like it was just it's just locating sliders it's crazy man it's just just just just yeah it's just like sinkers just throwing ground ball somehow just getting making guys get themselves out you know it was just oh it was awesome but he had maybe my

favorite shot of the day uh just a filthy disgusting up and down on four uh from from from long left that was just like the hardest shot I've ever seen. And he bumps one through there up to Stone Dead tap in. Big, big ass Bertie on 13 to kind of stay alive. Way too much club on four. Sure. He knew that was a green light spot. Of course I could get up from down from back there.

Cool moment. If you go back and watch the Bertie Puddy Curls in on three. As soon as he pulled it poured in, he like points immediately at Fuch. And Fuch was pointing right back at him. He was like Fooch had to read on that one. Like I saw the. them working on it, but I didn't, you guys can't hear what they're saying, but it was like, Fuch had the read on it and Rose immediately recognized it as soon as it went in the hall.

I thought that was cool. I think I'd venue, Venmo a pretty significant amount of money to anybody who could put a master cut together of some of his post shot antics from, from this week. Because I feel like they're always cutting away from a little bit every time at, right as they're kind of fading out, he's pointing at the crowd, he's putting the hands up. He's, he is being, you know, he'll call them a Thespian. Neil might have called him a Thesbian. I think it's Thespian last night.

And it's just, that continued today. That was, that was excellent. I was pretty, I thought, if he makes the pot on 14. And 15. Yeah, but the one on 14 was like, man, if he makes that, I feel like it's game on. He's been struggling with the drives this week on some of like the, on 14, on 17, on 1, on some of the par 4s.

And I thought he had a cool shot on 17, like up and over those trees, like really high. Got it to the great distance control, whole high Jay Rose. And then really good lag putt there on that one. Because that one looks, that green in particular looks pretty crispy. I think Jordan needs to reinvent himself as Justin Rose. Yes. In terms of like consistency, ball flight controlled, controlling your golf ball and not like trying to do a 1440 every time. you're entering the half pipe, like, like just watch the routine, the ease at which Justin Rose plays

and gets the absolute most out of his game. It's, it's, it's institutional knowledge. He's like, he's duct taping it together with like on a day like this. Like he played really good golf the first two days. But on a day like this, it's like he doesn't have it and it doesn't matter. And that's, that's the most, in a way, that's like some of the most exciting golf to watch. Let me throw this at you. Strokes game T to Green for the week here. This is number one, Scotty Sheffler, number two, Cam Young, number three, 45-year-old Justin Rose. Just like absolutely making it happen. You have any idea how much recovery is going on?

I know. I know. He's got to be just completely wiped, man. This was circulating a little bit this week. I may have seen this before I tweeted this earlier. But this was not accounting this week, Justin Rose had finished rounds at Augusta in the top five. 21 times. 21 times.

He like finished a round, like went to bed. It's like I'm in the top five. You enter the golf course tomorrow. It's insane. Dating back to 2004. He was first and second round leader in 2004. Man. It's a great round.

Fantastic. It sounds like you got our beautiful boy, Neil. I do. I do. I don't know if he needs a second to get situated here. He's ready to join us here. Welcome, Mr. Neal. Give us a second there.

Sure. A whole lot to us. Hey, Neil. How are we doing, man? I can't hear you. Hold on. Oh, gentlemen. How are you doing?

It goes well. Turn it up. We want a little action here, Dej. Oh, man. What a hot one out there. I feel like I got a little seasick. I mean, the crowd was up. It was down.

No one knew how to react at Amen Corner. It was intense. Give me, I mean, just give me a, I don't know, a word, a sentence? How are you summing it up today? I don't know. Turbulent, I think turbulent. I walked up. So I kind of got, I was following Reed and Rose.

And, you know, he almost made me stroke out on three. He's just feeling it. And then big roar, you know, Lowry, the sum of all fears for Randy, holds out. And I was like, man, I might pass out. There's just too much going on. Randy's like that shaky Oppenheimer photo where he's just all like,

what have I done? As soon as that Lowry A's sweat in. But P. and Rose, what a round from Justin Rose. We just got done talking about it. It's almost like watching an accountant. Yeah. It's like Ben Affleck in the account.

He's like doing the numbers on the walls. You know, it's like, yeah, it's really impressive. But it wasn't really exciting. I was like, I got to go find some action. So I see Cam Young. I caught him. I went over to 13 and he looked just totally in control.

And then I, ended up i i i come around the corner i went to the bathroom totally in control after he bounced on off the well i just saw him in the fairway like and he hit hit one to the center of the green made burgh i was like man this guy looks unstoppable and he made burgh out of 14 i didn't see the drive so i come out of the bathroom i walked down left of the bleachers on uh 11 and i just see rory in the drop zone and i'm like oh look what we found here and indeed you'll love this some guys like hey why is it why is it dropping it uh over by he rolled in.

I was like, well, he does always have the option to use the drop zone. I believe he probably likes the angle a little bit better over here. No, no, I'll say, don't interrupt. Like, what were his options that he could do there, Neil, could you walk us through this? Well, he could have replayed it. Okay. From where he was.

I don't even know where he was. That's always an option. 222, middle of the fairway. Okay. Drop zone. Yep. Or on the line with the flag and the, where the ball went in. No closer to the hole.

closer to the hole. So he couldn't have dropped it right there on the bank. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And he couldn't have dropped it at the top of the hill and taken and put five yards back on it. Correct. Like the cat. Like the cat. No, couldn't do that. So, man, Broy just put the left miss in play then on 12. And so it's interesting. The most, and I don't want this to come across wrong, but if you're going to find casual fans, I feel like at Augusta, they're going to be at Amen Corner. And because it does, it becomes a, a little bit more social out there. The golf's far away. And I just got this sense. You know? Yeah.

And I just got the sense that people didn't know how to react. They just like, oh my God, that's for, he just made double. Now he just made bogey. Like, wait,

this is supposed to be a crown. Like, what's going on? And so then I walk up the hill of 14. And I finally, I completed the, the bleacher cycle. I sat in the last bleacher.

I sat in the bleacher. I sat in the bleacher on 14. Congratulations. I was going to ask you to power rank all the bleachers, but maybe we'll do that tomorrow. Do you have a candy bar up there? No. Come on.

Are you serious? There's not going on out there. Come on. No, I sat at the bleachers on 14. And I will say this. If you are going to the Masters, great, great place to watch golf. It's kind of an,

you can see a full view of the green from all sides. I'm sorry, where is it? This is which grand said? 14. This is 14. No, not even the grand said. Just 14. Not a lot of people go to 14.

If you want to see a lot of golf shots, I would recommend going to 14. You'll miss some of the action on the famous. holes, but you will see a ton of golf. And the news is like 10 minutes later, I get up there. Nobody knows what's going on in the bleep. You know, like some guys like, oh, yeah, we're still at 11. It's like, no, he's not.

You know, and then I guess he's making that, just having a walkabout on 13. So, you know, you just kind of waiting for him to come through. And then he hit such a bad wedge into 14 and got crowned there coming down the hill. And then he just kind of bails himself out. I mean, if I was going to give Rory a credit, and he deserves a lot of it because he, he, he, uh, right of the ship he a lot of runners on base stage he got big strikeouts when he needed

like oh man for 14 was a big strikeout only one one he gave up four runs in one inning but he only gave up four runs for the day only only three were earned like there was an error in there yeah yeah i mean but he that was such he made the error though fortunately but it was a pickoff yeah so and then 15 15 was just really good golf i thought that was And that's why that put on 14 just turnicit, man. And then he hit a great drive. He hit just a really, really, really, really good shot into 15. And I didn't see how close that putt was to going in.

Really good. Yeah. Good put. But yeah. Not didn't lip out or anything like that. But it's all right what you were saying earlier about, you know, this golf course and you see some shots. And you're like, oh, my God, this is a place to pin the years back. And you see some shots.

you're like this is the hardest shot ever. I think about like a shot like that, that seven iron into 15, high draw has to be such a get right shot. I mean, it's a carbon copy of something we can do for maybe three times now where it's just like, oh, that has to be the moment where she's like,

all right, the last two hours haven't been awesome. But like, oh, this shot. I can do that one. Yeah, this one I got. You know, and it's just, you know, 16, when he's got that left miss going to a right pin was kind of like, that one's not going to be there's of course that's going to be down low there and then 17

struggles a little bit but i just think that was him being able to see that shot in that moment had to be massive but it's and again i feel like i say this every night on this show every every time that i sit down that bleacher on 15 like you got to you want when you watch like seven eight other guys hit the shot like you watch even sam burns the shot come in and like land a little too far on it which is not as much height as rory puts on it and it bounds over the green and like Shane Lowry goes in the water trying to get hit it on their house on suddenly tops it in the water like it's really hard to describe how how you know have you seen it will you pull it up and watch it a lot it's so sick he hit it in the creek on 13 too they did

go get 13 815 the chimney shoot you got to send that down the actual like the the distance you got to drive it first the descent angle you got to have on the ball and the distance control to land that in the right spot and have it look that easy it like it's it's what makes it one of the great litmus test golf shots uh yeah oh no that's the top oh no that thing was he was like that's skipped into the center of the water and then that's working in there god that's tough to see uh can i say this though i i'm going to go and call giraffe player not Rory, he's winning tomorrow. I saw the drive on 14,

the drive on 15, the drive on 18. I know he had a left one on 17, but just, and then the iron into 18, like I think he gets it right. Like, I felt like he righted the ship off the T down the stretch on the back nine.

I do not think Rory choked today. And even if he did not go on to win, I do not think this is a Rory choke. I thought it was a classic Chris Solomon. Like yesterday, he's thinking, I'm never going to leave. I'm back. Like, I'm never going to miss another fairway.

Like, we've all been there, man. He was, yeah. I just, I found it, man. I totally, that's how he's done in that press card. He's given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Euthon course. He's handed out money to the kids. I'm just, I might never, I might never shoot in the 70s again. And, you know, it's like, ah, that's going to cost you.

You got any other tournaments? You want me to shit on real quick? Oh, yeah, that tournament sucks too. Do you think you're intimidating, Roy? No. I mean, guys, let's say, he also shot 30s. He also shot 37 on the back nine today. Like, I don't want to put two rose color of glasses on it.

Neil, I've never wanted you to get hurt worse than tomorrow. What do you mean? Physically? With Roar. No, no, just like I want you to, like, if he collapses, like, after you saying this tonight, you're like, oh, he's absolutely. No, I just don't think he's going to, I think he's going to win tomorrow. I really do. I think he comes, like, there's.

Based on the two previous rounds, I know that we were talking this morning. The sustainability models didn't look good when you're 90th and driving accurate. but that's kind of what I'm saying. I feel like he found it a little bit with Driver. And he'll get that like, it's like left with the irons. Yeah, we'll see that back. Careful. This was my entire working philosophy last night.

It was like, oh, he'll figure, what did he can't drive the ball? He'll figure that out. That's not that big a deal. That was a big deal. He had to expend today. And also Cam, like, who's more, got more confidence on planet Earth right now than Cam Young? Well, so are you guys picking Cam? I don't know.

We haven't got to that. part of the show yet unless we're there i think i might just end up picking both of them in some way and like but separate them out by like 30 minutes and hope nobody notices all right should we do who's lingering should we do lingering loitering yeah let's do that all right this is ripe for that we should do how far back is too far back and lingering lord all right so cam young and rory are tied at 11 sam burns at at minus 10 uh neil lingering or loitering i don't think sam burns is going to win but i i i I got to give him a ton of credit. He played really good today.

I thought he, you know, that's a big spot for, for Bermuda Burns and just keep it together, all parsed down the stretch. That's good stuff. T.C. had a great point.

A lot of Bermuda coming through. Hotter it gets, the more of that Bermuda popped up. I say, T.C., I don't know if you've popped off on the setup. I love where I saw on 15 and 17 green was springy. Yeah,

there was like the two firmest greens on the floors. Max was talking about that. Which is great. In his post round, he's like, I think trying very hard not to, I don't know, just reading the transcripts. I don't want to read too much into it. But it was very much like the whole course is like all the greens are very soft,

except for a couple that are crazy firm, which is, which is interesting, I think. But yeah, a lot of guys are kind of walking up to the line and being like, yeah, like, even Adam Scott was like, yeah, I just wasn't expecting that. Yeah. Yeah. So we don't have to get into that now. Lingering, loitering. You know, anyone else?

I will say Sam Bird is lingering. he can absolutely win the, he can win the golf tournament. I'm not saying that he will, but I, that was loitering. He's got bad intentions. I hate this. Yeah, sorry. You're right.

You're right. You're right. He's like hanging out and saying, like, just chatty. Yeah. It's gnawn on your ear. It's like, man, maybe. He's kind of lounging. Loitering.

They got a baseball bat. It's bad. I got to go with my guns. A lot of people had baseball vats today, Neil. Sure. Actually, tonight it could be lingering, loitering or looting. Or looting. Luding.

Looting. your guy, Dubb, was absolutely looting the place for a while. T.C. Doug was looting. Clark literally almost made an ace on number three. She ended up making an eagle. I think what had Catalan said was like the 20th eagle ever made there or something. Played his last eight holes in three over though.

T.C. was, he was preaching patience. He said, God, we simply have to trust. We have to trust the process here and let him see his way out. today. I think we may have dodged it, but we'll see tomorrow. Shane Lowry, lingering, loitering, or potentially loitering.

Shane Lowry's gotten better every day. I think he's 70, 69, 68. I think we've seen some of the most historic bottles ever, in recent memory from him. I just, I think we're going to need to be. I think we're guilty until proven innocent. He's lingering. God, the people, the people love Shane out

I just need Mr. Big to know that. He's on the wrong side of that, according to the patrons. Jason Day, 68 today? I think Day is right in the thick of this thing. I just can't see that happening. I think you're both right and also I have a hard time seeing it. I don't know the last time I'm at 16.

And if he doesn't bogey 16, he's, but he always bogey 16. He always does that. He into the bunker. It was a bad shot. Yeah. I just can't think of the last time I'm just like, oh, that guy's,

I think that guy's a real threat to win this tournament. Which famous last words, maybe, who knows? You know how I feel about all the bird stuff? He's not really wearing the bird stuff, which is troubling. It looks awesome out there, though. Like, he looks... Clean. Yeah, he looks like such a throwback.

The Tor visors look so good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I can't believe I'm saying this up the way that Malvin's stuff started with him. Got it. Cold balls and strikes. Yeah, it looks great. Justin Rose on the 40th anniversary of Jack Nicholas's

win at 46, like just loitering like a MF. Nicholas did never recovery trailer. Imagine if he did. Ogie free today? It wasn't excited. Were you played this red light? It was.

It was. Sorry, just one thing on Rose on three. You know, he bad chip up on three. standing there and made that putt. We, we, because it's the Thesbian. Just, just given, yeah, come on. Thesbian, baby.

Yeah, no B. We're steered into that one. Yeah, yeah, we are. I suppose. Scotty Schaeffler. Scotty Sheffler. I think he's in it. I think he's sure.

Absolutely in it. He's got a, yeah, he's got one of those baseball bats with the spikes on the end, just clanking around on the concrete. That's the line of demarcation for me. I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah.

Because I don't think Hal Tong's in it. God, I wish he was, though. I mean, it's the year of the horse. We do have to give how Tom his flowers. Give him his flowers for him, bouncing back off the mat, off the bathroom floor, getting into that position. Our friends of Woop posted his 1% recovery,

which was great. It's a ball, ballsy, all white outfit today. What a round from Henley. I didn't see that. Yeah, Henley and Cantley paired together tomorrow. It might be kind of a page.

of play. That was one thing out of my notes. Pace stunk there on middle of the back nine. I was, there were murmurs in the, in the gallery, and the patrons weren't happy.

Not good. I think what the patron shouldn't be happy about Neil? Can't really shoot in 6766. The last two days. Are we trying to do a, 77. No, I turned the wrong way.

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Shout out to Sally for trying to send me up for that ad read. And shout out to who are you talking about? Patrick Cantley. T.C., your boy, Patrick Canley. Yeah, you were talking about how. Give us. 67, 666, 67, 66, the last three days. Started ball striking it, started hitting some greens, you know?

I don't. I don't know. That's pretty damning for. That's Exhibit A here, Your Honors. This is one of those. You know what? I don't need to talk about the setup. Ketlai's telling you everything you need to know about the setup right there.

Patrons were a buzz on that. Like, man, I was having fun, but KTLay just had two good back to background. 77, 66. I wonder what changed. Interesting. Tough day for Tommy, T.C. Yeah, it's unlucky. It's about to get tougher.

I saw something today. Meas. Saw something today on 9. Tommy was in the left bunker. Shane was short right of the green Backstopping. Shane chipped it just past location. Shane is midway through the ninth green like in stride on his way.

Says something. Couldn't tell what he said. But like clearly it's like had to go mark. And Tommy called him off from Markner Bowl. Stand down, Shane. Stand down and stand by. Listen, I'm going to have to bring it up with Tommy. One on one individual.

I may, I may text. Talk about that tonight. You're going to pull a side. Our weekly one out of one. We'll go over that. Take it offline. And in the words, I may have to call Stephen Schwartzman.

In the infamous words of Joe Buck when Randy Moss tried to move the crowd. It's a disgusting act. But that was not the only one of those I saw today. I also had to report on the second hole when Rory was over on the left rope line. Sam Burns had hit his shot in there, was on his way up to, you know, just his ball was just past the hole. had a nice shot in there on his way to go market and Roy also called him off of doing that. Well, Sam should have sped up there and said, Sally, it sounds like this might be a European issue.

There's two Europeans that called guys off from marking it, which you wouldn't expect to see. But, you know, when the prizes is, you know, as valuable as a green jackets, I'm acting outside of the character. It was, it was tough to see it. I just have to call it like I see it. And I really hope I don't run into Finno tomorrow because. If Mike Pence has the courage, make care of this tomorrow. I'm going to,

can I just dump some random notes? Yeah, of course, please. I just wrote this down. It is insane that one of these counts the same as Valhalla. Like, it's absolutely insane that both of those are just major championships. And it could not be more poloops. That's a drive-by, I know. But I had to get that one in there.

That's not a drive-by. That's a targeted. assassination. Can't let Bell get up on the back. Did we talk about this on Mike, or was this before, about Rory's scald wedge on 13?

I don't think we have talked about that yet. So we didn't really talk about that, but he has hit it, I think, all three days, right? He's hit it in that same way right, off the T,

kind of death zone over there. In the first couple days, he's punched out and been okay. Today, weird punchout. Were you standing there for that? I still think he hit. Did he hit one of the pieces of, like,

rod iron that holds a, They were working for a long time to get the gallery moves. So the gallery can kind of come between 14 and 13 there. It's a really good spot, but it's a thin area. And they were trying to move everybody back. But at the same time, Rose and Reed were teeing off on 14. So they couldn't send people across the cross. There's just nowhere for those people to go.

So it took forever. They finally move them back and they take down all the ropes. And he punches it out. Sure enough, his ball hits one of the metal rods and pops it straight up in the air. And he ends up on like a patch of grass, I think, that was like some of the thicker overseed out there. And I don't know what happened, but he just came out of the shot and he equated it. I mean, he hit the middle of it. It came out of a completely different window than any other shots I had seen come from there.

And I think people thought it was a skipper that was going to get to the top and check. And it had absolutely no check. He went over the green. Got it up and down for par. But that was one of the uglier shots. Solly, real quick, I took Gustav, my younger one to the shipping area today in the driving range. and I was in the bunker and I equated one and I one hopped it into a dude and like across the green it was it was probably 40 yards or whatever but like one hops

into him and this guy you know all this guy's buddy he's like oh you know like I yelled for and all this guy's buddy's like hey man you got to be a good player if you're going to be hitting in that bunker I literally just like picked up my shit you don't understand They're world class. I was trying to teach Goosey how to, because Gooseley wanted me to take him to PGA This morning. Goosey now we're at PGA Tour Superstore at 9 a.m. this morning buying him a quote sandwich Because he wanted a sandwich.

And that's a sand wedge. And I'm teaching him how to use it out of the bunkers and stuff. And I just go on out. I picked my shit up so quick. And I'll say, look, see you later. Thanks guys. That shows how fast it can change. Think about where TC's game was, you know, just a year ago.

Oh, my God. He was the Lynxmaster. Unbelievable. Champion golf for the year. Equatoring it. Listen, it can happen to anybody. Sure. Saw Drew Brees.

That was an exciting. Had hadn't seen him yet. I want to point out the lady on 16 that's getting in all the shots is actively choosing a worse seat just to get in the camera shot. Like she's off to the left. She's not even centered on the box. I think it's the whole point. I know.

But I just, I'd never seen the actual spot where she's sitting and realize that it's golf centered. That's wild. I think that guy needs to take her spot. That guy was back today. Thanks, Al-Goy. No, the guy that's... Oh, he's like, he's like two rows back. The guy was just like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that's good

stuff. I mean, Drew's all over. He's tracking that guy closely. I got a few, Sally. I saw a Gulf of Mexico shirt, which is kind of a weird place for a group of, a political, like Gulf of Mexico. Just felt like a political...

Oh, yeah. I thought you said golf, like the Mexican Golf Association. It was just a general, like just a Gulf of Mexico, like just shouting out the Gulf of Mexico? Just, yeah,

just said Gulf of Mexico in words. That was on the shirt. Did see a really tough scene had. Stick a big golf of America. Yeah. Yeah. Like the golf. Peatown.

That was the worst big letter hat I saw. Like pound town is what it looked like to my perverted, you know, perverted eyes. but P-Town. Did it have a vowel? Yeah, it did. T-W-N.

No, it had the O in it. So David Duvall. I hadn't, I don't, and seen any of him wasn't quite positive while he was there. Dodd, he's got walking sticks going out there. That was in my name's great, great stuff. I'm not making fun at all.

Like, she's got knee problems, and she's one of the hardest working people in golf, and she's out there, out there doing it. I just want to shout that out, walking that Hillary. It's a great vibe. She's just, like, slow and steady with the sticks. It's good stuff. Doddy's been great.

She's been on it. She's been great. Just a couple shots to go back and watch if you want to. P's bunker shot on two. That was immense. You mentioned Rory's shot on six, his second shot there. That was fantastic.

Obviously, we had the ace. Rafa Nadal, the only thinks he was wearing Holderness and Bourne, were not positive on that. I do. And I want to give Raffa shot. He was absolutely just man of the people.

following Rory, like, step for step, like not skipping holes, wrapping around four, going the long way to five. I mean, I was like, man, this guy's in it for all 18, it looks like. So impressive stuff. That's pretty much all I got. All right, I got a couple things for you. T.C., what a story I got for you. So I'm on 14, I'm left of 14, and Lady J walks up.

Oh, and she's with, not Dave Pells. Oh, no, the son. Eddie Pells? That's who P's working with. with. Yeah, Eddie Pell, big Eddie Pells is kind of walking with her. She's got on the tasseled golf shoes, black and white like bowling shoes. Was it like a rodeo sheik today? I heard it was kind of an Easter outfit yesterday. She had the fanny pack on, all black. Just, yeah, over in the trees. A few people came up. She was kind of holding court. She was, uh, big Eddie introduced a few people

to her. So I was trying to, I was trying to keep my distance. Cody, I got out of though. I, you know, I got the no laying up in the hat. She could tell I was kind of, I was kind of, trailing her so I had to duck out of there but she was out there you know just keeping watch I wanted you to know that as always I wish she could have gotten him over the line a little bit better he he was kind of undone

I think four and five were tough but missing missing to that right pin on 10 that's that's that's that was a death sentence it was just yeah disappointing round from P I was a booby trap you laid for him there I was hoping we get get the the Rory P final group but

Cam Young's a good a good option What else I see? I saw two separate guys smoking pipes. Yeah. I don't see a lot of pipes. I saw one in the back of 15. Is that where you saw it? No, 17.

A wooden pipe? Yeah. And 13. Love that. Guys just enjoying a pipe, which I thought was something. Party doctor loves a, loves it like a tobacco wooden pipe.

He bought one in Italy and he just busted out at random times. It's great. Cody, I don't want to air you guys. Cody had his corn cob pipe, he told me. He used to bring with him on, on deployments,

I believe. Take that off line to a booth episode. What was that General MacArthur, Cody? Did that, something like that? Yeah, I'm getting a nod. I think so. He does. Oh, and I also want to, you know what?

There's bid number 91 this week. Jordan Speath. Really? Yeah. Maybe the last guy on the property. Didn't like that. Was it Tommy that was 90? I think that's right.

Yeah. So I was like tracking the bib numbers thinking about when guys arrived. But Steve being 91, I just don't like. any of that. Yeah. And it's just a really electric start from Pete. Just not a lot of sound effects. Ludwig was 90. That's right.

We saw him on the first tee. Not beloved by the crowds. Even if he's beloved by TC and us here, it's not, that's going to take a while for the rest of the rest of people to catch up. He's going to continue his apology tour. Exactly. He's really a tone for everything he's done so well, but people haven't caught up on it. Well, he's going to play the president's cup.

hopefully he goes down and he plays Kingston Heath this year in the the Australian Open. I think if Pete keeps taking these steps, I think he's going to be embraced. Can I be 100% sincere? And you could say fool me

a hundred times shame on me. But I feel like P is matured a little bit genuinely. Like I've listened to a lot of his press conferences. Even going back to the live stuff, honestly. Like he I think is mellowed out. I

think he's a little less like aggressive, a little less defensive, a little more thoughtful. I think I've genuinely enjoyed listening to him on a variety of different platforms. So I totally agree. I think that's going to flip. I think the, like, he's always been known as like treating his playing. Like guys don't mind playing with him. He's, he's nice to people. I just have a lot of weirdos around him.

Well, yeah, I think that's, that's truly a big part of it. I think McGinley had a really good point on live from last night, too, where he said, he loves to play golf. Like, he likes to play events. He likes to play, like, he likes to turn up and he plays a big schedule. And I'm stoked to see that carry through, like, once you can get back on the PGA tour. Because I think having P, having Brooks, like, I, I, I just felt a big sense of satisfaction last night of, you know, I was, I was listening in. I'm like, man, like, we've gotten some of the characters back.

And I feel like we've added a few characters here too. And I think, hopefully there's some characters coming up through the ranks as well. But it just felt like all was right in the world, having P involved again in a major. I thought Kepka was, I mean, going to do something today. As soon as I saw that shirt, I was like, oh, here we, here we go. I was 100 part 71, but T-15. And kind of had to flip it on the back to shoot the 71. I can confirm what you guys were saying about his golf swing in general.

Like just the way his ball flight looks right now. And for some reason, I've always had, I've always not loved Brooks's swing in the way it looks. It looks very stiff. Yeah, when it's bad. And he looks very smooth right now.

It looks, yeah, it looks great. I was with you. I would, I would have taken whatever his under. I was expecting bigger things out of that, that whole pairing,

too, got her up too. Yeah. I'm up, you know, even par 72 today. you know, 221. Got a couple Rory quotes

just from, he very, very much met with the media. It looks like a lengthy seh. So again, apologize. I'm getting new cleared there. Someone asked him, what's the biggest difference going into the final round compared to last year? And he said,

I'd like to think that I will play a little freer and I'll play, you know, like I've got a green jacket, which I do. Sometimes I just have to remind myself of that. I have, but I think also that the stakes in terms of the pairing will just be a little easier. That's a reference to not playing with Bryson. You know, the atmosphere out there will be a little easier. Not worried about that.

I wish I was a few shots better off, but I'm comfortable. Played with Cam the first two days, playing with him again tomorrow. I think it's a comfortable group for both of us. Just thought that was interesting. Good quote. Cam is going to church tomorrow. He said, of course. He's going to Mass.

He's got plenty of time. Absolutely. Do we, I mean, is it time for picks? Sure. Do we go down the leaderboard a little bit more? Do we do picks? If there's anything else, you feel just like a legal obligation that we have to mention, T.C. I don't know.

I thought Morikawa, T12, right now. 68 today? Great round today. I think that's a pretty gritty week. I know we shit on Little Baby Collin a lot. We didn't talk about his presser yesterday was, I think it was yesterday. It was wild. Like talking about the mental side of like really not feeling much pain.

But I think he was invoking the, the young lady from, yeah, Bailey Shoemaker from the Onwa who was having a hard time pulling the trigger. He was like, he's like, no, it doesn't hurt. But like I think it might at any time is kind of the, that feels like the specter of back pain that just follows people around. But yeah, to grid out at 68 is great. 15. That was fun.

And just a bummer. I don't know. Just a bummer coming off Pebble, right? Like just such a reacension, like staring down Scotty, getting it done in an iconic place in a big-ass tournament was like, oh, my God, we're going to the players, we're going to the masters, we're going on. And just a bummer to have him be sort of an also ram in those. I thought, T.C. real quick. And just before we continue to go down this, are we drawn the line of how far back at the Schephler minus 7? I think that's right.

It's the right thing to do. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Can't lay Henley. That does eliminate P. That does eliminate P. I think P eliminated himself today.

We're not limiting P. Luckily, he's coming back every year, you know. He did. God, he hit such a good punch out from the trees on 14.

Just, he's always scheming, though. I want to see P. and Jose Maria Ola Thab will play, like, just a horse. Force him. Yeah.

So you're up and down contest. Those two in the aggregate might be savvy. Wow. I might be feeling myself a little too much. I don't think read is too far back. Five back. Five back of some horses. True.

But he could shoot 65 tomorrow. I mean, we might need to shodd around the world. Yeah, but there's so many guys in between him in the lead, though, too. Yeah. If he shoot 65, he's going to need a bunch of other guys to not shoot 67. Yeah, that can happen. I mean, look how much Scotty gained on everyone today. Winning score is like probability or expectation from data golf is between 11 and 14 under par,

with 14 under par being 17% chance, 13 under 19% chance. So, I mean, yeah, if he shoot 66, that puts him at 12 under, which has a chance. But solid to your point from earlier, like if Scotty goes out, like Scottie feasts on those two par fives on the front. Scotty goes out and starts hunting on those holes. I think it could be a sweepstakes down the stretch of where, like, I think P at that point is too far back. I think it's like Schaeffler playing against.

I think that kind of urges Rory into like, hey, you got to get on your horse here and like pin your ears back. It's going to be such an awesome day. It's going to be amazing. Just hot take there. I'm not trying to debate too much course setup stuff, but what do you think they'll do with the golf course? I think it looks pretty similar to the day.

I think so too. They want birdies, Dege. They get the onsite experience. They want roars, baby. Almost every year I'm like, cool, give us that. But I just, again, it's like, we only get this at once every 20 years. It's like, can we lean into it? That was my whole frustration, I guess.

There is an interesting combo, too, with, Toronto and I were talking with this earlier today. Well, you guys are out there, but about the, how fast the fairways are moving. Right? like the fairways being super firm and that just just having a hair more like oh that can roll into the the second cut that can roll into the pine straw i think adds it adds like another element of like randy said this perfectly today when rory was on 17 and on the broadcaster like oh like there might be a window randy's like yeah there's fucking always a window that's why augusta rules like it's it's the best and so getting more of those balls that do creep into the

you know, I might need to hit this one through a window, but also there's a little, it's not totally death if you miss the fairway is a, usually a pretty good combo for this golf tournament. T.C., I just want to say, I don't think that your frustration with the course, then not just taking it to the limit is,

I think that's very fair. I'm just, my thing is on site. I could feel it on Thursday. It's just, you know, it's subdues the place when 15 and 16. And,

man, no one's doing it. anything in the in the arena and and it is a bit of like a movie studio they're like they need to blow some shit up you know like we've got to do some stunts man well that's what it feels like where's the cg i let's go it was such a knee-jerk wild reaction to thursday instead of like all right like why stress the course out and dry it out so so much Monday through Thursday only to do this you know i i don't know i just i feel like there's no there's no progression right it was just to step back and it kind of and for me it's not necessarily like there's some of the holes are

are weirdly soft like balls just spinning back on 12 today was tough to see early on 15 yeah and just some of the I think it just feels a little artificial in spots I guess but also you know and like I know they've got the cooling coils under the greens they've got like they everybody's saying they had this place right where they wanted it and I'm like well like did they or did they just have to to really and like they're bent greens. It's not it's not overseated rye on the greens. Like I get that they have to water

to keep the rye going. Keep the Bermuda to totally stop from taking over. But man, it just feels like we were primed for something a little bit different or a little bit special this year. And we didn't get that.

Granted, we're getting a great master's or we're getting something topsy- Yeah, you got a great leaderboard, which I think is what they care about. I know. I know. It just doesn't, like, it's just a different style of test. And like, I'm not asking for that every year. I'm not asking for a U.S. Open to break out.

But I do think, like, this place when the ball is on the ground is pretty freaking magical. And like there were times on Thursday when it felt like I was watching Sandbelt golf. And that's what I feel a little bit like that's been taken away from us a little bit. Impossible to tell, but it's just worth noting there was some wind on Thursday. It wasn't windy, but there was some wind, and there's just been nothing the last two days. And there's going to be some tomorrow afternoon. Like, it's not windy, but I think that that can add a little, just a little bit layer of spice to it. And I think it's like, it's fair that that's kind of, you know, it didn't progress and that's not exactly what you're hoping for.

I don't think it butts up against anything anyone has ever said about from the, from the leadership of Augusta of what they're expecting to put out. Right. Like, that's, no, I know. It's just one thing when, like, it just feels a little bit backwards. when you see this, this style of presentation on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And they know, like, the forecast hasn't changed in 10 days. I mean, it's been the exact same for, like, it was going to be windy Thursday, maybe a little bit of wind on Sunday.

And they, they, like, normally it's a different, like, I think the whole thing has always been, oh, yeah, it's a different golf course from Wednesday into Thursday of like, it's a much, it's so much firmer and they dial it up. And then when they're dialing that back so much, and I think some of it's just, like, there's just not a lot of fire in the greens. I feel like it's just, there's not a lot of downside risk of,

oh shit, that's a frisky pin and that thing's going 30 yards from the pin off the green. Like, I don't want to see guys playing defense on every hole. That's not what I'm saying. I just want to see a little bit more like, oh, yeah, he's fucked over there. Like there's no way to make par from over there.

Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to, again, it's hard to tell what you, what you see on TV versus in person. Because I, I feel like we've, we've probably seen more bad shit happen in person just because it's not tailor-made kind of highlight show to say like, well, a takeaway I've had his skin is just like the appreciation of like what, you know, been rooting for Scotty, rooting for Jordan at times of like how hard they have made it feel other than Scotty today at times. And then you watch like a guy like P take the course apart the way he has. And it's like, oh, dude, yeah, you just went out and earned it. Like they, here's what I'll say is, is clearing the bar from ETC. I don't think anybody's getting away with murder. I was getting away with like hitting bad shots and it's,

and there's no consequence to it. Like that's when golf gets, gets pretty dull. It's still like, if you want to make birdie, you got to hit excellent shots. You got to go earn it. You're not,

you're not a lot of people. You know, it's not a piece of shit fucking putting contest. That's for sure. And it's not just like bailing out really bad shots, which August almost never does. That's credit more to design than the setup. But that's,

that's what has made it's quite watchable for. me. I think that's where it's like, hey, like Augusta is still Augusta, right? It's still a brilliant test. And I think we're seeing the best parts of Augusta. I just thought we were going to see a fuller picture of all of that based on what we saw. Like, I'm comparing everything to what we saw on Thursday. It was just a different product. A couple more, just final sort of down the leaderboard stuff. Jake Knapp, good round from him today is up to T-12. He's never finished better. He's only played five majors. Never affinity he's missed a cut in four of them and t 55 last year at the masters or two years ago at the

masters uh so freaking good man will be far and away his best uh performance kind of one of those guys everybody i think like kind of thought hoped was going to play well and then played well so shout out to him benny booms t-12 yeah benny booms is i think he's kind of finding something like it seems like i i saw him have a quote the other day that said like hey i you know my start to this year hasn't really been all that different from my start to last year. So I feel like he's he's in a good place. Guys, one of the rounds of the day today, Ryan Gerard. Yeah.

Making his debut. Yeah, 68 and, you know, a little kind of a bad bogey on 18 there. But bogey's on 5 and 18, otherwise six birdies and played. He's really acquitting himself well this this year. I feel like he put a lot of work in not only to get to this tournament, but even leading into this tournament to prep for this tournament. I think it's paying off. Genuinely been like one of the

best iron players in the world as well. You know, not a, not a shock. It's kind of one of those like, you know, not a shock, but also it is kind of a shock because it's the first time and you never know what you're going to get. So again, kind of like the Jake Knapp thing. It's just fun to see. The guys who are on paper supposed to play well

actually go and play well. Hatton, even par, glad we dodge that one. I'll be honest. Brian Campbell's remains in my keyster. Brian Campbell shot 69 today. I missed that. How about that? Brian Campbell versus Ludwig tomorrow.

Oh, DC. You got a lot of the line, DC. Anything on Tommy or Ludwig? Not really. I think Tommy's, we're kind of, we're kind of, no, you guys had that conversation last. You had the Ludwig conversation that was scheduled for last night. It feels like we covered down. You guys missed that meeting?

He got put on the speed bag today by Scotty a little bit. He was off. He kind of, you know, came strong after seven, birdied 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15. Bogied 13. But some signs of life in there. I just, I was thinking about it last night. I think we need to see a little bit more artistry injected to Ludwig's game.

Sometimes it feels a little, a little stock, a little stiff. A little hitting into a night. net kind of vibes. Yeah, I think that's fair. That's big of you, TC. T.C. just absolutely nothing on Tommy when everyone else around him is just, you know, gas rolled down.

Yeah, he got laughed. John didn't pick him. I didn't pick it. Yeah, you guys were all over me about not picking him. He's gearing up for Shinnikok. He's geared up for Shinnock and Burkdale. It will be a fascinating watch tomorrow. Of course, seeing if you can get in the top 10.

But I saw a question for you. Brooke sitting there at T-15 and his playing status for this year. Him getting into top 10 would, I'm assuming, give him a ton of FedEx Cup points. They would hopefully, I know he's not playing next week in Heritage, but down the road, like he's looking for the most points that he possibly can get. Yes, I'd have to, in some major mode. I've got to get back into what signature event qualify it looks like, but could get into the next 10, I think, not quite the pineapple.

I don't think this counts and the swing five. Now, Pineapple 5 would not be, that wouldn't, I don't think this event would count in the pineapple 5. It's usually the lower than events that count for the pineapple 5. But yeah, he's got a,

this event does count for the Fedora 5. This is part of the eggplant 10. Guys, a really good pairing tomorrow that I would go watch. You guys need to kill some time early. or, you know, midday. Michael Brennan and Maxwell Holma. Oh, sure.

T.C., I got the franchise coming tomorrow. I'll come with my top five franchise quotes. The franchise and his older brother are Uncle Ken. He's never been to Augusta before. Yeah. I can't stop laughing. Uncle Ken and the franchise. Hopefully we'll get some content out of that one, fired up.

Kids have laughing at Neil during the Arcos ad last night, realizing he could use it to. I look at some literature this morning. I was taking a peek. Get ready to play Augusta on Monday. If you missed the news, Neil, won the lottery. We'll be teeing it up at Augusta on Monday afternoon. Neil, what shot terrifies you the most?

I'm talking about this tomorrow. I try to think about that kind of stuff, T-C. That's right. One shot at a time. Hell yeah, man. I only get ahead of myself. That's all I thought about. If we're being honest, the chip on three, because I'm definitely hit driver on three.

Put me down on that scoreboard, baby. Let's see if we got it. All right, guys. Let's make some picks and get out of here. Who wants to stick their neck out first? Who wins the 90th Masters tournament? Did you say you wanted an update on the picks from our draft from the previous? No, I don't think we have time to do that.

There's still so much. You said there's so much fucking golf left. I thought I heard you say, I thought I heard you say if you combined all of your guys, you almost catch me. That's tough. You were, you were in Tommy, you trusted. And he just didn't get it done for you.

Oh, please. DJ Pie. driving. That's bleak. Bleak, bleak. You really don't have a whole lot of like get out of jail free cards. I mean, look at, yeah, this is just

tough. It is very funny that you all passed on Rory and Cam. Let me get that at the snake. So thank you. Really, I thank you guys for this well, it looks like a trophy coming. Like we said last night, it's all either. It's a fine team, but they're even better young men. Just have a glad you could be the leader of the leader of a squad like that. It's just really good stuff.

Well, you can go first. Hold on. Before we pick some winners here, I just want to go over some pre-event, uh, predictions that we had here real quick. So, Solly of course picks Scotty to win. Bryson would not win. Solly's still very much in this for, for win. If Scotty has a chance, DJ said Cam Young absolutely would not win, uh, via DM. I also doubled down on this. I was like, dude, what that, what's going on? And you're like, I'm sorry.

just I can't do it. No, if you go back and you play my tape, I said, I think he's going to have an awesome week and he's going to finish second. Truly is what I said. Yeah, I actually do remember that, Dej. I'm sure you said he was going to play really well. Yeah, that sounds familiar. Neil also picked Cam Young not to win.

And I just was like, that's not going to happen. And then I doubled down with Rory not to win too. Bryce and I think Bryce and win. So I'm all over it this week. Brian Campbell. I mean, the beluga's hot, baby. Can we get someone on Reddit or something to give us an update on the balloons? But usually we got tracking progress of the big horn.

We need some we need some notes on this. T.C. in the house, Rom not going to win. And then, uh, he's like nine picks, didn't it? Yeah. Ludwig, then team Rose and Jordan, then came back and was like, no, George. Hold on a second. I forgot about P. Make sure P's on that list. And then finally, uh, the closing bell rang was Ludwig. Ludwig. And Rom not to win, which is, of course.

just got fast. Who did Randy pick? Big was Bryson not to win Zander to win. What did Zander do today? He also picked like eight people not to win. Zander's at four under T-15. He shot 70 today.

Was Sam Burns on Randy's not to win list? I doubt pre-tournament was even garnering a mention. Yeah. He just lit him up on Thursday night. I got to say, so nice we don't have to worry about him winning. I'm definitely rooting for Lowry tomorrow. Just for content sake.

I took Randy last night. I would love to see him just stay up with his keyster. That's good stuff. Solly, you're kicking everybody's ass so bad in the fantasy draft. You can go first. Who's going to win? Do I,

can I still claim credit for the Scotty win? If Scotty comes back, if I pick somebody different now, are we doing two different things here? Yeah, we're doing, who do you want to win and who do you think's going to win?

And who wouldn't surprise you to win? Just cover the whole fucking board. I mean, if Scottie wins, I'm still going to, I'm still going to celebrate three years in a row the turkey that we were going for. But if you're asking me right now who I think is going to win, I think it's going to be Rory.

I think he gets it done tomorrow. I think he gets back to play in Rory Golf tomorrow. So I think so as well. I am terrified, terrified, terrified of Cam Young. I would welcome a Cam Young victory with open arms. I think that's great for golf for all the reasons that we mentioned. But I don't know. Rory's still my guy.

man. I felt myself today just like I was living and dying with Rory a lot more than I expected to be. And I'm going to sign up for that again tomorrow. If he gets to six, man, ties Faldo, he ties Phil, he ties Phil, he ties Trevino and like gets seven in play.

A head of Brooks. It's just that's a big day for our guy tomorrow. I think he gets it done. I did once declare that Rory's going to win 10 majors. So that would help that help as well. Yeah. Speed's going to get to 8, too, though.

T.C. I'm going with Cameron Young. I think his game is tight right now. He's, what, he's 15 under in his last 42 holes. I think he's, I think he's got that look in his eye. And I have full confidence out of, like, guys, just seeing him hit that wedge shot on 17 at Sawgrass with the wind howling. behind him. It's one of the best

shots I've ever seen in person and it's just and he keeps backing it up with more wedge shots just like that like the one on 15 today and I don't expect it to stop tomorrow. With how wrong I was about what happened today, I'm doing a little bit of a Costanza because everything my

my eyes are telling me is what you just said. I mean one of these guys looks a lot more comfortable than the other guy but I don't know. I was way wrong on the other one so I'll try to steer against it. But I think that can't really go wrong with that. I think we're going to, some part's going to be fucking epic either way. I don't know who's going to win.

I would be stunned if somebody won by three or more. Like I think it's going to be, like we're going to be butt cheeks puckered tomorrow. Neil? Yeah, I think Roy's going to win. I actually think I agree with everything you're saying about Cam Young. The fact that they're in the same group, though,

I think that, I think Roy knows that he's got to go get it and go back on offense. And, yeah, I just think it's set up for the two of them to go back and forth. I'd like to think that Justin Rose was going to get in the mix, but I think it's between the two of those guys. I really do. Cody, do you think your guy gets it done tomorrow? Hell yeah, DJ.

You know, we don't have a lot of history here, obviously, but if you go back to 2024, the winner of the players championship would go on and win the Masters. 2025, the same thing would happen. I think it's going to be Cameron Young's day. I love the fact that he's playing with Rory. He's comfortable with him and is used to dealing with the big crowds and everything. And honestly, like, doesn't really care about Rory's game or the shots that he's hitting. It's just trying to control his own ball.

I think it's going to be camp and it's going to be awesome. It's probably going to be the shortest speech ever. But that's my guy. And I can't wait to see it. Be wearing a rope out all day. cheering him on. Can I see a very pointless question? Who do you think Brian Rolaps

rooting for tomorrow? Rory? You think? I think he's rooting for Cam Young. I don't know. I think it's interesting. I think it's closer than it has been in years past. Does it roll up watching?

Are we positive? He cares who's winning? I just mean more like who's the PJ tour want because that player stat is like it's a cool stat. I know. And Rory still is like a big needle mover. But if you're going to have other needle movers,

Like, they got to, they got to start winning majors at some point. Honestly, I think Brian Rull out probably wants Scotty Schaffler to win tomorrow. That's probably sure. What's the, what movie am I thinking of where the guys like, yeah, we're the same? Like, no, no, we're the same. No, no, we're the same, man. No, no, we're not. That's the PGA tour at Augusta.

Like, yeah, we have the same guys win the tournament. Well, they got a coast off. I mean, there's a symbiosis, right? They got a coast off each other. So I don't know. Whoever wins tomorrow becomes a bigger star in the PGA tour. I loved Ridley's Ridley

you know kind of shooing the PGA tour away a little bit during his remarks and being like yeah like the AJGA does a lot for the ecosystem just a flick of the nuts

it was sick yeah college golf's great too they're providing us a lot of stars well guys I can't wait to see what happens I think we're in for a hell of a day it looks like all kinds of pre pre pre coverage programming tomorrow

we've got a Nance retrospective with Rory. We've got the 40th anniversary of the golden bear. T.C. is going to be all over that, I'm sure. I'm going to be on off shit bags on. He's going to go skull some more wedges. Neil's going to be hitting balls at the range. That's right. A little range time in.

Yeah, we'll see everybody back here tomorrow night, man. It's going to be a good one. Can't wait. Awesome. Thanks, everyone for tuning in. Thank you. Thank you all. I'll say it. Can you guys like and subscribe tonight? You know, a lot of people here. Hit the like button.

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Sorry for running. Lightly, quickly walking past everyone on the way back to the press center today to hustle back for the show. But I got a lot. I got a lot cheering for that. go you're on the air go get on the air cody cody real quick will you flash a screenshot of the ace mobile that's going around the ace mobile send it through in the podcast ops thread oh okay uh it was great hey uh you know what we're gonna be never mind i'll twere you thank you tc we're gonna be did you guys see it it's fucking hold on i'm getting i'm trying to i mean if you're this deep at the show it's it's worth see it

This is what Dustin Johnson's driving all week, according to TC. Must credit TC. I mean, that's sick. It is sick. You got to do the candy bar tomorrow, too. I know. Yesterday I couldn't find what today. I didn't try.

I forgot. In his defense, like a bottom of water today, and I actually never saw you again the rest of the day. And I did not see a candy bar there when. Yeah, thank you. I'll try to get on it early.

You can't be canceled for that if you didn't try. What? I mean, if I had tried, it probably wouldn't have been there. Yeah. that that's not the same that doesn't cancel the candy bars based on your review exactly that's the kind of power i haven't that in there i'll make that a priority tomorrow gentlemen

heard heard uh we'll be back five wide tomorrow very very excited uh master sunday a little bit delayed too we usually wait till after ceremonies and impressors and everything else like that but i'll update the time as we get ready and uh excited for sunday at the masters guys Cheers. Thanks for turning in. Thank you. Crack on.